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I was stumbling around the Columbus Circle area after completing the Hell’s Kitchen Forgotten NY tour on Sunday, May 18th, 2014, when I spotted some semi-familiar words on an 8th Avenue building at West 56th. It’s the leftmost in this group of ads facing an ultramodern building currently home to a McDonalds. The term […]

On July 5, 2008 ForgottenFan Vicki and I met on a rather desultory day, with heavy, humid air and frequent showers. After ducking in to see Get Smart (the Steve Carrell version) things cleared up temporarily and it was off to the new Riverside Park along the Hudson River between West 59th and West 72nd. I didn’t see […]

One of the IRT’s “original 28” stations constructed in 1904,Columbus Circle, has been a hodgepodge in appearance since the 1930s, when a transfer to the new IND running up Central Park West was instituted. For example, all the “Columbus Circle” terra cotta plaques ( seen above) were removed during the 1930s renovation. In addition, more than […]